CoreWeave co-founder says even older GPUs are still rising in price and are in demand for AI servers

The AI industry is often seen as pushing the bleeding edge of hardware and tech, but not every AI server is running on the absolute latest accelerator chips. CoreWeave's co-founder and chief development officer (CDO) Brannin McBee recently testified as much on tech and business talk show TBPN (via Ray Wang).

The CDO explained that today we can see "late 2010's SKUs that are available in market on clouds. They're not running that infrastructure unprofitably."

"Our pricing on Ampere went up during 2025...